Jennifer Aniston reveals dark reason behind joining Jennette McCurdy’s memoir series

Jennifer Aniston recently shared the real reason she accepted the role in Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died series for Apple TV, revealing a dark secret behind her decision.

The forthcoming series is a TV adaptation of the former Nickelodeon star's memoir, based on her traumatic childhood and complicated relationship with her late mother, Debra.

Speaking with PEOPLE, the 57-year-old actress stated that she was "immediately intrigued and flattered and excited" when offered the role alongside McCurdy and Sharon Horgan.

Aniston added, "It's going to be wonderful. It's going to be pretty great to start shooting it.”

Elsewhere in the conversation, she disclosed that she had a very similar mother to McCurdy.

“We have a lot in common," the Friends alum said of herself and the iCarly star, adding, "We had very similar moms."

For those unversed, McCurdy mentioned in her memoir that her mother, who died in 2013, had forced her into acting, a decision she claimed led to an eating disorder and exposure to exploitative environments at a young age.

Similarly, Aniston has also spoken up about her dynamics with her mother, who breathed her last in 2016.

"She was a model and she was all about presentation and what she looked like and what I looked like. I did not come out as the model child she’d hoped for," she said in an old interview.

Moreover, the We’re the Millers actress revealed that she grew up in a “household that was destabilised and felt unsafe.”

It is worth noting that the I'm Glad My Mom Died series, in which Jennifer Aniston will also serve as an executive producer, does not yet have a confirmed release date.